"Oh God," Curnen laughed. "The whole valley's related one way or another. Throw a stone and I'm cousins with whoever it hits somehow, even if it's so far back it don't really count no more. It's a small community." The Tufa were few in number, and the pureblooded ones in particular all had deep family ties.

Not that Curnen was for that blood purity shit. Proud and respected Bliss was as a First Daughter, the whole mess had brought Curnen only misery.